zag

[ zag ]

verb (used without object),zagged, zag·ging.
  1. to move in one of the two directions followed in a zigzag course: First we zigged, then we zagged, trying to avoid the bull.

Origin of zag

1
First recorded in 1785–95; extracted from zigzag

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How to use zag in a sentence

  • Then all this stopped and on the wet undergrowth again there was a movement like the zig-zag stripe of the tiger's skin.

    Kari the Elephant | Dhan Gopal Mukerji
  • About a mile off he saw two men coming slowly up by a zig-zag path toward the very point where he stood.

  • My walk during the day had been of such a zig-zag nature that I had lost my compass points, and had made no landmarks.

  • Only too soon we were in the midst of terribly crevassed ground, through which one could only thread a slow and zig-zag course.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson